Samsung announces Dual core Orion mobile computing processor

[ChuckBartowski]

We still consider Samsung's Hummingbird application processor to be among the very best for mobile computers, but this morning Sammy itself is stepping up the charge to make it look real old real fast. The freshly announced dual-core Orion promises to whip us all into a frenzy of geek lust with "5 times the 3D graphics performance over the previous processor generation from Samsung," 1080p video encoding and decoding at 30fps, embedded GPS, a native triple display controller, and on-chip HDMI 1.3a interface. Those last two bits mean you can drive two displays on your mobile device while feeding a third, such as a HDTV, all thanks to the one all-powerful chip inside. Availability for "select customers" is coming late this year, with mass production set for the first half of 2011. To say we're looking forward to it would be a massive understatement.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/07/samsung...a9-weve-all-be/

This should be fun.

 

[raing3]

I wonder how this news attracted your attention...

Spoiler

You weren't searching for your father again were you???

Does Samsung work for Fulcrum?!?! They haven't captured your father again have they chuck... NOOOOOO!!!

I guess you, Sarah and Casey will be off on another mission soon hey, if Fulcrum manages to build their own intersect we are all doomed..

 

[Maz7006]

having FULL HD playback on my phone ?

Overkill ? :/

 

[ChuckBartowski]

I wonder how this news attracted your attention...

Spoiler

You weren't searching for your father again were you???

Does Samsung work for Fulcrum?!?! They haven't captured your father again have they chuck... NOOOOOO!!!

I guess you, Sarah and Casey will be off on another mission soon hey, if Fulcrum manages to build their own intersect we are all doomed..

Spoiler

You haven't been keeping up on my story have you... its... its too soon.... its a lot worse than that....

/off topic-ness.
Back on topic, i cant imagine the power requirements here.

 

[VashTS]

right thats the issue, you can throw a quad core in there if you want to, but you will need a small nuclear reactor in your pocket.

 

[Elritha]

Sounds good. I wonder how much more battery life this will suck up though. Something that's important on a mobile device.

 

[OSW]

I read another article saying (iirc) that it uses less power than current hummingbird (although i'd guess thats probably with only 1 core running).

There is a rumour that this might be used for the Samsung galaxy S 2, which would be pretty sweet hehe (although I love my original SGS

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[thedicemaster]

having FULL HD playback on my phone ?

Overkill ? :/

not really.
would be nice if you can actually play back your 1080p HD vacation recordings on your fancy flatscreen by just plugging your phone into your TV